Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 14775, William Gage, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Gage, William Rhoda
W 14775
CONTENTS

3475.
Massachusetts.
Rhoda Gage.
widow of William Gage.
Mass who died on the 15 th January 1791 - of Essex - in the State of Mass. who was a private in the Company, commanded by Captain Brown of the Regt. commanded by Col: Glover, in the Mass. line for 8 mos: -
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts - at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 nd day of Dec r 1840 and sent to - Mrs. Mary, Methuen, Mass.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept: 1840, $253: 27 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 th Mar '41 13: 33
$266: 60
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 d }
Recorded by H. C. Lantinger Clerk. Book 6. Vol. 1 - Page 55

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex County ss.
On this twentieth day of October in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty personall appeared before me Daniel A. White, Judge of Probate within and for the county of Essex aforesaid, Rhoda Gage, a resident of Methuen in the county of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged ninety years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836. That she is the widow of William Gage late of Bradford in said county of Essex, who was a private in the army of the Revolution; said William Gage, enlisted the last of April 1776 for the term of eight months, and immediately marched away to join his regiment at Beverly in said county of Essex, where he was stationed until sometime in the summer following when he was marched with his regiment south and joined the army in New York or New Jersey where he remained until he served out the full term of his enlistment and was honorably discharged, and returned home in January 1777.
She further declares that she was married to said William Gage on the twenty first day of November in the year seventeen hundred and sixty nine, and that her husband the aforesaid William Gage died on the fifteenth day of January seventeen hundred and ninety one, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed
The word 'enlisted' interlined before subscribed & sworn to by the deponent affidavit
her Rhoda X Gage mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before
D A White Judge of Probate
I certify that the above named Rhoda Gage cannot, by reason of bodily infirmity, attend a court of Record.
D A White

No 5214 Rhoda Gage
Meals
act 4 July '36
m69.2.91
adm d
8 mo p n
$26.66
cap Brown col Glover
no deduction
John Tenney esq Methuen Me

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex County ss
I Daniel B Stickney clerk of the Town of Bradford in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do hereby certify that among the records of Marriages in said town I find recorded the Marriage of William Gage to Rhoda Norton as follows
"November twenty first one thousand seven hundred sixty nine William Gage & Rhoda Norton both of Bradford were Married. the above person were Married by the Rev. Mr Samuel Williams,"
And I certify that the above is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows " 1769 Nov 21 " } Town Clerk of the Daniel B Stickney } Town of Bradford
I Daniel B Stickney above named depon and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the Town, County and Commonwealth aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town with the exception above named as certified by me
Daniel B Stickney { Town Clerk of the Town of Bradford
Essex ss
Sworn and Subscribed this Twentieth day of October AD 1840 before me
William S. Balch, Justing of the Peace

I Jonathan Gage of Newburyport in the county of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged eighty one years depose and say that I knew the late William Gage of Bradford in said county and know that he served as a private in the War of the Revolution for the term of eight months in the year 1776 he enlisted the last of April of that year and at the same time entered the service in the regiment commanded by Col Glover and the company commanded by Capt Brown, he served with his regiment which was stationed at Beverly in this county until July following, when the regiment joined the army at White Plains N.Y. afterwards marched to Fishkill and from there to New-Jersey and was at the battle of Trenton Dec 26 1776. he was soon after honorably discharged having served out the full term of his enlistment viz eight months. I enlisted at the same time with him served in the same company with him all the time with him and was discharged at the same time with him I know that said William Gage died at Bradford more than forty years ago Jonathan his Gage mark

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex County In September 23 d A. D. 1840 Then personally appeared the within named Jonathan Gage and subscribed and made solemn oaths to the truth of the within deposition
Before me
John Tenney { Justice of the Peace
I certify that I am acquainted with the above named Jonathan Gage, the deponent and that he is entitled to full credit for truth & veracity
John Tenney, Jus. Peace

(Extract from Dartmouth College Class History.)
HASELTINE, GEORGE, son of Col. Richard and Rebecca (Gage) Haseltine, was born in Bradford, Massachusetts, the 17th day of August, 1829; worked on the farm and went to the district school 1835-47; attended the New Hampshire Conference Seminary, 1847-49; entered the Wesleyan University, 1850, and exchanged to Dartmouth College, 1851; was elected Class Orator and graduated A. B., 1854; entered the University of Albany, 1854, and graduated LL.B., 1856; was admitted to the bar, 1855, in Albany and St. Louis; went to England, 1857, on law business which was settled, 1859; studied patent law during this period; received, in course, the degree of M.A., 1857; became Editor, 1860, of The London American , of which journal he was a proprietor; wrote its editorials, 1860-62, that were extensively copied by the British press, and of which, the American Minister, Hon. Charles Francis Adams, stated he "never read abler articles in The London Times ;" resigned editorship, 1862, and thereafter gave exclusive attention to patent law practice; established, 1865, in London, a firm of Patent Solicitors, which acquired a business, unrivalled in Europe and gained a world-wide reputation; was elected Class-President, 1869; was engaged 1870-71, with Thomas Webster, F. R. S., the eminent Barrister, in the agitation for patent law reform, and his proposals were embodied in a Patent Bill by the Attorney General, Sir John Holker; gave evidence, 1871, before the Parliamentary Select Committee on Patents, which evidence in a condensed form, appeared in various publications, and "was made the basis of discussions," states an eminent German Solicitor, "by our Technical Societies, that led to the reform of the German Patent System;" was elected, 1871, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; received the degree of LL.D., 1872, from the Chicago University; was one of the Organizers and a Member of the Vienna Patent Congress, 1873, in which he advocated the policy and justice of liberal patent laws; was visited in London, 1873, by classmate Gen. John Eaton, who states that "he had won the position of leader in the patent reform movement and among his friends were the most eminent of English Barristers;" was Counsel, 1862-76, in many patent cases; retired, 1876, from the London firm of which he was the head in impaired health, and returned to America; rested 1877-81, during which period he twice visited Europe; resumed work, in New York, 1882, and acquired a foreign-patent practice unequalled in America; established, 1885, a patent firm that has made a specialty of foreign business, in which firm he continues an active partner; is a member of the Psi Upsilon Club, and a life member of the New England Society; has never married and intends, he states, to be buried in Bradford, whose first settlers were his Puritan Ancestors.
ADDRESS, 247 Broadway, New York.

14775 - Mrs Wingage
Oct - 70 - 1840.
Methuen Mass. - 90
Apl. 76 - Bradford Mass
Capt Brown
Rel Gloner
Pit & Mus
Trenton
Married Rhoda Horton
Nov. 21, 1769
Died Jan 15, 1791
am

HASELTINE & CO., (FOREIGN PATENTS.) 247 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.
New York 1882—1862 London.
TELEPHONE, 1240 CORTLANDT.
CABLE ADDRESS:
HASELTINE, NEW YORK.
June 17, 1901.
To the Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir. My Great Grand- mother Rhoda Gage , widow of Capt Wm Gage of Bradford Massachusetts, who died Dec 21. 1841 aged 91 years. was a pensioner. I wish to ascertain to what Regiment my Great Grand Father belonged. We cannot find it recorded in the roll of soldiers kept in Boston. It is possible Capt Gage was made Capt after the war of the Revolution and was a private when discharged. Mrs Rhoda Gage died in Methuen Mass. I suppose the records of the Pension Office will show not only the amount of the Pension drawn by the widow but also the position of Wm Gage in the army. It will inform me in respect to the fact shall be placed
Yours Respectfully
Geo. Haseltine.

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
June 22-1901 Geo. Haseltine - N.Y.C.
File No. 14775 Rhoda Gage Widow of William Gage Pre Civil War
Act: July 4th 36
Index: Vol. a , Page 264
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Nov 24. 1840
me
July 4. 1836.
Rhoda Gage
War Department Pension office
Washington
D. C.
5283

Dear Sir
Please address any communication relating to the inclosed application of Rhoda Gage to me at Nettleton. Essex County, Massachusetts
John Tenney
Nettleton Nov. 19 th 1840

3475. Maine.
Rhoda Gage, widow of William Gage—
who died on the 15 th January 1791— of Essex— in the State of Massachusetts— who was a Private in the Company—commanded by Captain Brown— of the Reg t commanded by Col: Glover— in the Mass ts line for 8 mos—
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine — at the rate of 26 Dollars 66— Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 nd day of Dec r , 1840— and sent to— John Fenny, Methuen, Maine.
Arrears to the 4 th of Sept: 1840. $253:27 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 th Mar: 41 13:33
$266:60
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 rd }
Recorded by Wm C. Lutzinger Clerk Book 6 — Vol. 1 — Page 7

Payment to be made at Portland, by A. Newhall, Esq. Agent for paying Pen- sioners, in the Agency of Maine
3
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book 6. Vol. 1. Page 7. by Wm. G. Lantzingen Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the 3d section of the law of the United States, of the 4th July, 1836, Rhoda Sage of Essex County, Mass: widow of William Sage who was a Private in the Revolution, is entitled to receive Twenty Sise dollars and Sixty Sise cents per annum, during the time she may remain unmarried, commencing on the Fourth day of March 1831 and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this Second day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty- four Forty.
J. P. Kirtland
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. }
J. S. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
Should have been on the Massachusetts Agency. -

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
I JOHN PRINCE, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Essex, do certify that Hon. Daniel A. White is Judge of the Court of Probate within and for said County; that
John Tenney & William S. Balch Esquires are Justices of the Peace within and for said County; that his commission is dated  A.D., 18  and will expire in seven years from that date; and that their signatures hereon are genuine.
WITNESS my hand and the seal of said Court, at Salem, November 17. A.D., 1840.
John Prince Clerk.

I Moses Hall of Bradford in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts aged seventy eight years depose and say, that I knew the late William Gage of Bradford, and know that he served as a private in the war of the Revolution for the term of eight months in the year 1776. he enlisted and entered the service the last of April or first of May 1776 at the same time & in the same company with my brother Joseph Hall now deceased, in the regiment commanded by Col Glover, in Capt Brown's company, immediately after he enlisted he marched to Beverly in this county where the regiment was stationed until July following, I think, when it was ordered to join the army in New York while the regiment was at Beverly I was there and saw said Gage doing duty in the regiment, we frequently heard from my brother and in connection with him soon said Gage during the fall & part of the winter following and it was universally said and believed that he was serving in the army in New-York & New-Jersey and was present at the capture of the Hessians at the Trenton Dec. 26 th 1776. said Gage returned to Bradford in January 1777 and it was said that he was discharged the last of Dec. previous, at the expiration of his term of enlistment viz. eight months, my said brother having been wounded in the battle of Trenton did not return until about a month after said Gage. I then lived in the same neighborhood with said Gage and was intimate with him and have frequently heard my brother and others who served in the same company with him, speak of having served with him, and it was always said and I never heard it

doubted that he served the full term for which he enlisted viz eight months and was honorably discharged. Said William Gage died at Bradford about forty nine years ago.
I also know Rhoda Gage, widow of said William Gage and know that they were married previous to the Revolutionary war, and that she has not intermarried since his decease, but continues his widow. She is now living at Nettleton
M rs Hall
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex County ss. August 24 th A.D. 1840 Then personally appeared the above named Moses Hall and subscribed and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition —
Before me
John Tenney, Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Moses Hall and that he is entitled to full credit for truth and veracity
John Tenney, Jus. Peace